Word: bedlam
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...pulpit" stood Quotation Recorder Bill Poulden watching the clock. At 9:30, as the grain pits were opening in Chicago and Minneapolis, Poulden rang the gong and the pit burst into a bedlam of shouting and arm-waving...
...Cats. The defense, quite naturally, did not take kindly to the ghosts. Accusations and name-calling turned the hearing into bedlam. Under the bullfrog blustering of Santo's lawyer, swart, strutting, pint-sized Harry Sacher, some witnesses wilted. Others roared back. Into the record went such words as "bum," "parasite," "derelict," "stool pigeon," "police spy," "informer," "bigamist," "white slaver," "Muttel the Goniff" (Yiddish for Max the Thief...
There were seconds of stunned silence-then the defendants, their wives, attorneys and friends in the crowd stood up in a shouting, back-slapping bedlam. Cried Roosevelt Carlos Kurd Sr., who had been identified by nine defendants as the man who shot out Willie Earle's brains: "I feel the best I ever felt in my life. I got justice." Defendant Hendrix Rector bragged: "I'm gonna get drunk for a month and then run for sheriff...
...Obviously the building is on fire. But no. The price board on the west wall is the cause of all the commotion. May wheat has just jumped from $2.69 to $2.69¾ a bushel. Presently the noise dies to mere bedlam...
...greater than the woes of a lovelorn son and daughter. Not only is George Apley altered to fit the needs of non-New England audiences, but the aura of Beacon Hill and Louisburg Square is wrenched out of reality and transformed into a cross between a high-mannered Bedlam and meeting night at the Witch-Burners' Society...